Positioning Of Loft

[Tony C]

A few questions if you don't mind participating.

 

What direction does your loft face?

 

At what time of year do you find your pigeons hit form?

 

On reflection would you have faced it/them in a different direction and why?

[Kyleakin Lofts]

My current loft faces south east.

They hit form, if you are able to call it that, during end June / start July.

My new loft will be facing north west and possibly south east. When I state the direction it faces, I am talking about the trap. The new loft, I may have two traps. The north west will be the sprint pigeons, the south east for the distance loft.

[showman]

West-no choice !

[blue pied]

South, west, north

[greenbar]

was always told. a south facing loft is best,

[andy Burgess]

A few questions if you don't mind participating.

 

What direction does your loft face?

 

At what time of year do you find your pigeons hit form?

 

On reflection would you have faced it/them in a different direction and why?

 

East / North East . that,s the way they tend to come on a race day too , all other club members are further East than us from 2 to 7 mile further East .

 

does it ever really hit form ? wet summers as much as dry summers these days

 

i would prefer it to face South , thats the best in my opinion . would take an awful lot of "messing about" to achieve that here tho .

[Dmurray]

My Old bird loft faces south to catch as much sun as possible with my young bird loft facing east due to size of my garden and form my aim is for the end of June / start of July to coincide with nationals but it dosnt always work that way so al take form as and when it comes

[Valiant Fifer]

Yb loft faces south and they love the avairy for the sun. Dry out quicker after a bath as well.

Ob loft faces east or east south east obs never even start to come into any sort of form til at least end of may beggining of june.

 

There is usually a change in some of them at that time. Before that i can only say they fly in condition. They must do that first before they can hit any form. Forgot to say i dont pair up early, so things happen later for the long races hopefully!

[philg50]

My dookit faces west and its to close tae the house ,i had no other option (size of garden etc) so i Would say when me and the birds are happy is when the suns higher in the sky May onwards ,if i had a choice facing south and up to the air .

[moscow master]

My loft faces south that's the reason I bought the house lol it has little to no ventilation and has polycarbonate on the roof and 50% of the front is plastic aswell the doos love it

[paddymac]

Young bird loft faces North and the main racing loft faces East.

[sandy25]

Mine faces south..but because of telephone wires might have been better facing west 1st season this year intending to start with young birds will see how it pans out and maybe turn it west after the racings over ..Has anyone any advise on that?..

[greenlands]

Both my race lofts South East.

[andy Burgess]

Mine faces south..but because of telephone wires might have been better facing west 1st season this year intending to start with young birds will see how it pans out and maybe turn it west after the racings over ..Has anyone any advise on that?..

 

slightly off topic Sandy , and i hope Tony doesnt mind. i have mentioned this before (getting to an age where i repeat myself often) . way back when , my Uncle had a neighbour who flew in the same club/fed and was getting the "rip" taken out of him at basketing one Friday night .his loft faced North and was told he would never win un-less it faced South. he called upon a few work-mates to help him turn it about. they done this early on the Saturday , finishing a short time before the birds arrived home . he didnt have a good trap , i wonder why eh

[sandy25]

Apologies for off topic ....

thanks for input andy

all the best

[andy Burgess]

Apologies for off topic ....

thanks for input andy

all the best

 

was my post that was "off topic" Sandy , not yours

[geordie1234]

My lofts face

east west and north

[yeboah]

At my present address loft has to face South but does not get evening sun because of house

At previous address it was L shaped facing south south east and got sun all day (if it appeared ) lol

As for form that ones a mystery to me some seasons it's just there ,others for some unknown reason it never appears

Although personally I hit form better in good summers

[Guest jason]

my old loft when I was racing 10+ years ago faced east and only got the sun until lunch time.

 

my new loft since starting back up, faces south and when the suns out, the loft gets sun all day.

[fred x]

A few questions if you don't mind participating.

 

What direction does your loft face?

 

At what time of year do you find your pigeons hit form?

 

On reflection would you have faced it/them in a different direction and why?

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East South East. Tony. Had no other way I could have faced the loft. What time do my birds hit form! That's a hard one

[fred x]

My loft faces East South East. Tony. Had no other way I could have faced the loft, My loft faces the Sea. Our fed race the South Road,

Most of our Federation races are Flying along the south coast West to East, With 4 Channel races.

But most of us fly the Nationals & Classics.

What time do my birds hit form! That's a hard one